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2021 Socorro County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Socorro County, NM went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,832 customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2832nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Socorro County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2021 21:30 | July 24, 2021 05:30 | 8h | 274 | 670 |
| 2 | May 11, 2021 23:15 | May 12, 2021 01:15 | 2h | 125 | 250 |
| 3 | May 12, 2021 16:15 | May 12, 2021 20:15 | 4h | 125 | 500 |
| 4 | June 29, 2021 08:15 | June 29, 2021 11:00 | 2h 45m | 111 | 253 |
| 5 | March 24, 2021 15:15 | March 24, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 98 | 129 |
| 6 | August 12, 2021 01:15 | August 12, 2021 04:30 | 3h 15m | 85 | 185 |
| 7 | August 22, 2021 22:00 | August 23, 2021 00:15 | 2h 15m | 82 | 157 |
| 8 | August 18, 2021 23:45 | August 19, 2021 09:15 | 9h 30m | 79 | 620 |
| 9 | August 13, 2021 03:15 | August 13, 2021 05:45 | 2h 30m | 50 | 72 |
| 10 | April 16, 2021 17:30 | April 16, 2021 18:30 | 1h | 34 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Socorro County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.74 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Socorro Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sierra Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,451 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Socorro County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Socorro County, NM annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/new-mexico/socorro-county